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Sex Offenders Must Hand Over Online Passwords 630

mytrip writes "Privacy advocates are questioning an aggressive Georgia law set to take effect Thursday that would require sex offenders to hand over Internet passwords, screen names and e-mail addresses. Georgia joins a small band of states complying with guidelines in a 2006 federal law requiring authorities to track Internet addresses of sex offenders, but it is among the first to take the extra step of forcing its 16,000 offenders to turn in their passwords as well."

Comment Learn from Juno / Netzero? (Score 1) 643

An ad-supported windows will never work. If one thinks about where the majority of computers are deployed / used; I can see no fortune 500 companies that would appreciate their employees bombarded by ads while doing their work. Netzero and Juno both tried this model and they couldn't even get email / internet to work for ads.. let alone ads all the time..

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